Power usage numbers

[ochadd]

Picked up a P3 Kill-a-watt and have been unplugging everything around here lately. Feel free to post your numbers if you've got them:


Dell mini9 w/ ssd
1 watt off
1 watt standby
14 watt boot
11 watt Crunching SETI


Dell 15.5" laptop AMD 1.6 turion x2, OCZ vertex
57 watt Full load SETi, screen on

Dell 14" laptop Intel 2 ghz T7250
49 watt Full load SETi, screen on

Compaq 14" laptop celeron 2.4 single core
67 watt boot
50 watt idle

Dell 20" Widescreen LCD
1 watt off
42 watt use

Atom 330, 300 watt 80+ Seasonic
30 watt in use
41 watt Full load SETi, USB flash drive as main drive
39 watt Full load SETi, 7200 rpm laptop drive

Benq 24" LCD
44 watt

System in sig no monitor
151 watts idle
195 watts CPU full load
274 watts GPU and CPU crunching SETi

Bonus:
For the rig in my sig it costs me $216 per year to run BOINC 24/7 @ $0.09/kwh
Atom 330 = $32/year
Mini9 = $8.76/year
AMD Laptop = $45/year
Intel Laptop = $39/year

Roughly $1 per day buys me 8000 credits. $340/year buys 2.9 million credits. This is far from exact but interesting none the less.

Edit: For every one month I run my gaming rig I could run the Mini9 for 18 months. $216 pays for 24 years of usage. That makes me smile for some reason.

 

[PCTC2]

I'd really hate to think about my power usages.

My i7 uses around 500W F@H load (2x SMP and 2x GPU)
My Q6600 and Q9400 have not been tested yet, nor my E6400. Lots of money on my end.

 

[dajeepster]

I refuse to think about it

my crunchers

 

[Ken g6]

My Q9400 at stock (stock Intel GPU) is using 120W right now. I think I was under 100W with the Corsair power supply I was using; but it started causing reboots. I need to RMA it.

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: dajeepster
I refuse to think about it

my crunchers

:laugh:

On 230v mains here:-

Main rig
Q6600 @3.34 GHz (vcore 1.34v actual, loaded), Asus P5Q Pro(Intel P45), 4GB RAM @1046 MHz, HD 4830, 2xHDDs, Antec TPII 430

Running DPAD - 226w *
DPAD + F@H GPU - 275w
F@H 2xSMP ~236w *
F@H SMP & GPU ~283w

19" Hansol CRT ~63w

*IIRC those figs were without the 2D downclocking that ATI cards do (ATItool had stopped that), with 2D downclocking the rig was pulling 217w running DPAD.

Main rig prior to Q6600 & P45 mbrd upgrade
E6420 @3.2GHz (vcore 1.3125 setting), MSI P6N Plat.(Nv 650), 2GB DDR2 @800 MHz, X1950 Pro, 2xHDDs, Antec TPII 430

DPAD - 180w
DPAD & F@H GPU - 229w

E6420 @def 2.13 GHz, DPAD - 160w
E6420 @ 2.5 GHz, DPAD - 167w

My main rig prior to the C2D upgrade
XPM 2500 @2.5 GHz, 1GB DDR @356 MHz, X800 XT PE, 2xHDDs, Antec TPII 430

DPAD - 180w

2nd rig prior to upgrade
S754 Sempron 3100 @2.5 GHz, 1.5GB @227MHz, X800XT PE, 2x HDDs, ColorsIT '550'w

Running SETI optimised app v8 - 122w
ATItool loading GPU & CPU ~184w

2nd rig
E6420 @ ???, Asus P5QL Pro (Intel P43), 2GB DDR2 800, X1950 XT, OCZ 600w

To be tested (maybe this afternoon)

Brothers new rig
E5200 @3.4 GHz (1.2125 vcore setting), Asus P5QL Pro, 2GB DDR2 800, X800 GTO (modded to XT), Hiper 430w

Idle - 85w
DPAD - 110w
DPAD & ATItool - 157w

I did end up o/cing his CPU to 3.7 GHz , but I don't have the power figures for that here.

 

[Rudy Toody]

I tried to use my Kill-A-Watt to measure the power usage of my rechargeable nose-hair trimmer, but it was all charged up and didn't use any power.

So, I used it for a bit to run it down and now my nasal passages are bald all the way up to my ears.

And the stubble is itching and I am sneezing so much that I haven't been able to do the test.

Man, the sacrifices I make for science!

 

[petrusbroder]

LoL! :sun:

 

[Wiz]

Seems the numbers that matter most are missing...

watts per unit of work

 

[Assimilator1]

Bah , well for DPAD you can go to the forum & find the benchmarking thread to my rigs output.
IIRC F@H SMP output was about 2200ppd.

My HD 4830 does about 2000-2400 ppd again IIRC, the 1950Pro is no longer supported by the GPU client so that one doesn't matter anymore .

...... I think, you can work out the rest

Lol Rudy

 

[ochadd]

Swapped the USB drive out for a spare sata laptop drive, disabled COM, parallel, and USB ports on the Atom 330. After the change it's now running at 38 watts instead of 41. Must be the USB ports drawing more juice than SATA?

This thing consumes 38 watts cranking out about 350 ppd. Comes out to $29.95/year bringing in 126,000 points. Doesn't seem very good compared to the numbers I get from other machines.

 

[Assimilator1]

How does it compare to the E7400 on a w/ppd basis?

 

[ochadd]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
How does it compare to the E7400 on a w/ppd basis?

Based on power alone:

e7400 4.0 + GTX 260 1400 shaders = 8500-10212 ppd
$1 = 14363 points @ 8500 ppd
$1 = 17256 points @ 10212 ppd

e6750 2.66 = 1190 ppd
$1 = 4553 points

AMD X2 1.6 = 450 ppd
$1 = 3650 points

Intel T7250 2.0 = 864 ppd
$1 = 8086 points

Atom 330 = 350 ppd
$1 = 4264 points

Edit: These are for system numbers and not just the processor. The AMD and Intel T7250 numbers are laptops and the power measurement was taken with the screens on.

Counting only the difference in power usage between idle and 100% load assuming they are going to be running regardless:

e7400 GTX 260 = 3,102,500 ppy = $96.97
$1 = 31994 points

Atom 330 = 127,750 ppy = $6.30
$1 = 20277 points

e6750 = 434,350 ppy = $37.84
$1 = 11478 points

 

[Smoke]

Nice post, ochadd. :thumbsup:

That seems to be a very good way to look at it.

$1 of electricity earns xxx points by the various systems.

 

[The Borg]

Agreed, a very interesting post.

I was very interested to see the performance of the Atom 330. I have a whole bunch of old P4 3GHz (yes, fair size electricuty bill, but it is cheap here) and I think the Atoms come close, but at a much lower consumption.

I suppose economies of scale come in here - the big machines consume a lot, but then they also deliver a lot more.

Anyway, nice...

 

[ochadd]

To clarify how I came to those numbers. Machines are all crunching SETI using optimized apps. The e7400 is using the SSE4 version while all others are using SSE3. The GTX 260 is using the VLAR killer one.

Watts consumed x 8760 hours in a year / 1000 = kWh used per year
kWh x $0.09 my cost = $ per year
PPD x 365 = PPY or points per year

At the office electricity is only $0.0275. Wish I could get that rate at home.

 

[Assimilator1]

Good post & your Atoms do quite well really .